Trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison is perhaps best known for providing chrome-tinged obbligatos behind jazz-pop singers. His muted trumpet can be heard playing tightly wound touches on the albums of singers such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. When singers paused between verses, arrangers had Edison fill the space. At times, Edison mirrored the vocal…
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